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Making a Real Difference Everyday
Each month, more than 250 homeless and vulnerably housed vendors get a hand up to helping themselves by selling our weekly newspaper.  Real Change readers respect and depend upon our award-winning journalism for information about their community and how they can get involved and make a difference.  Real Change’s groundbreaking advocacy and organizing work is building a cross-class movement of homeless people and their allies that can deliver real wins for those who need change the most.
 
Awards:

2004: Society of Professional Journalists, Susan Hutchison Bosch Award for outstanding Achievement
2005: Seattle Weekly, Best Grassroots Media Source
2005: Municipal League of King County, Organization of the Year
2006: Society of Professional Journalists, Best Personality Profile, Best Humorous writing
2006: State Housing Finance Commission, Friend of Housing Award

Real Change depends on reader support to publish our weekly newspaper and fund our organizing. More than forty percent of our 2005 budget came from readers like you.  Our most recent Annual Report (PDF File) and Strategic Plan (PDF File) are available for download here.  Thank you for supporting Real Change.
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If you would like to make a material donation...
Real Change is currently looking for items for our Winter Weather Drive!
We need the following items to help keep our vendors warm, dry and healthy during the cold months:

• Winter Hats and Gloves
• Coats and Sweaters
• New and Gently Used Boots (especially ones that are waterproof)
• New Socks and Long Underwear
• Personal care supplies: soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, hand sanitizer, cough drops, facial tissue, chapstick.
• Cold and Personal Hygiene products: travel sized facial tissue, travel-sized tylenol or cough medicine, lozenges, soap, shampoo, gel hand sanitizer, razors, etc.
• Rain Jackets and Umbrellas.

Other Things we need:

• Books: Got books gathering dust? We want them for our vendor book exchange program!
• Plastic grocery bags (used but clean) for vendors to use
• USB keyboards and mice
• Gift Certificates to restaurants, movies, stores, grocery stores, and fun things to do to pamper our vendors and volunteers
• Composition books
• Pens, pencils, markers
  Printer paper (white and colors) and printer labels
• Other office supplies: staples, tape, sticky pads, etc.
• Plastic sleeves to protect newspapers from rain

Have a Computer Donation?
Because we operate on Macintosh OSX, Real Change can only accept working Macintosh G4 or greater processors.

Our Minimum Specifications for Computer Donations are:
700 MHz processor
20GB Hard drive
500 MB Memory
USB ports

If you have a material donation, please contact Kathleen Ferguson, Director of Development by email development@realchangenews.org or(206) 441-3247 ext. 211.
Feel free to stop by the Real Change office at 2129 Second Avenue, Seattle WA. 98121. Map

Real Change is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that relies on donations to operate. Donations are tax-deductible, and receipts will be provided upon request. We appreciate the support of our neighbors and community, and that all of those who have helped us come this far.